Evnis

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General Information
Evnis resides in Ardan, and is advisor to King Brenin.

His wife is Fain. His son is Vonn. His brother is Gethin.

As a young man, Evnis was one of Rhin's lovers.

Malice and Valour
Evnis is pale-faced and fair-haired with a neat and trimmed beard. He has an oath scar on his palm. He wears a tunic and breeches.

Ruin
Evnis’s beard is dark and streaked with silver. He has deeper lines in his face and there is a stoop to his shoulders. He wears rings of gold and jet on his fingers and a warrior torc wound with gold wire. Spidery veins are spread over his cheeks, something bloated about his face. He has the look of an alcoholic.

Background
There was a time when all he had felt was hatred for his brother Gethin and for his mother, with her mocking condescension. Then he had been handbound to Fain - strange that his brother’s most spiteful deed had resulted in Evnis’ greatest happiness. Gethin thought that marrying Evnis into such a minor family would be a source of immense pain to his younger brother and at first he had been right, but Evnis had fallen in love with Fain; not instantly, like a thunderbolt, but gradually, incrementally, day by day. It was her kindness that had won him over in the end, her ability to see only good and somehow his love for her dulled his hatred of others, never completely removed it, but made it feel less important somehow.

But, seeing her ill, he could feel it all bubbling back to the surface, fuelled by his great fear of losing her he wanted to lash out and kill something - or someone.

Malice
Eighteen years before the beginning of the series, at nineteen years of age, Evnis pledged himself to Asroth. Rhin and Uthas are present and tell Evnis of the Giants' Book teaching of the Earth Power. He spends the next eighteen years searching in vain for it in Dun Carreg.

During Marrock's handbinding, Evnis meets with Camlin, (one of Braith's group of brigands), who has a sealed note from Rhin. The note tells Evnis where to find the book that teaches the earth power. She says that, with the starstone cauldron, are what can save the ailing Fain. Evnis gives Camlin the location of a home outside Dun Carreg, Darol's Hold, which he is to attack.

Evnis begins a new effort to search for the giants' book in the tunnels under Dun Carreg. His men discover tunnels in the basement of his hold and exploring it, he finds the book, as well as a dull black stone wrapped within a chain, in the tomb of a giant. As he takes the book, one of the white wyrm eggs at the foot of the tomb hatches.

Evnis take the wyrm's head to Brenin, telling him that Helfach had slain the wyrm in Baglun Forest. He asks Brenin permission to take Fain to her home, planning to actually take her to the starstone cauldron. Brenin denies Evnis permission to leave, saying that Queen Alona will need Evnis to advise her while Brenin is gone to the King's Council. After Brenin leaves for the King's Council, he asks Alona's permission to leave. She denies his request as well.

Evnis, under orders from Rhin, disguises himself as a member of Brenin's warband and assassinates Uthan, the son of Owain, as part of Rhin's plan to fool Owain and Brenin into a war against one another.

Allegiance
Evnis is loyal to Asroth.